Importing landmasses from images
Hi!
I'd like to migrate a mapping project I have worked on previously to CC3+
However, drawing the landmasses again seems... not smart. The coastlines would never match!
I would love to know if I can import my old maps as an overlay or better yet, for CC3+ to generate landmasses from my images.
As a side question... can I make detailed regional maps from a bigger one in CC3+ without having to make a new project and trying to get the coastlines match? Meaning, is there a way to select a zone of the map and tell CC3+ to make a new project based on that?
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Can you show us the map?
I would love to know if I can import my old maps as an overlay or better yet, for CC3+ to generate landmasses from my images.
You can insert an image into your map using Draw -> Insert file. You can then either place this on a sheet below the one you draw on, or add a transparency effect to the sheet holding the image if you wish to have it as an overlay.
CC3+ has a command called TRACED than can construct an entity from an image automatically, but this works best if the image is black landmasses/transparent seas, and it will only be able to handle the outline, it can't really do inland contours and things like that (unless you are able to extract those manually as a separate image to be processed.)
can I make detailed regional maps from a bigger one in CC3+ without having to make a new project and trying to get the coastlines match? Meaning, is there a way to select a zone of the map and tell CC3+ to make a new project based on that?
Yes. There are a couple of ways to go about that. All the options do require some manual work to get a good end result, but getting the coastlines is quite simple (Although you do probably want to add additional detail to a zoomed in part of the world). See here for one way to do it
Oh boy...
Many maps all WIP.
This is the one I'm currently working on.
Which is part of this planet:
I still have a lot of work to do... The mountains for example look awful. I've been working on wonderdraft + photoshop for some overlays because the workflow is super fast and intuitive.
But in my opinion CC3+ does some things better. If I mess a river for example it's hell to fix using wonderdraft. And making the starting point of a river look good in wonderdraft is just awful.
Thank you SO MUCH. This answers everything!
@Esteban Martínez Villegas in addition to Remy's suggestion (Monsen), also take a look at Ralf's video from last week as that is exactly what he does, i.e. takes a larger map and then looks at a more detailed map. May also help. :)
This one here: https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/12963/live-mapping-classic-fantasy#latest